Thereva elizabethae Holston & Irwin, 2005

Gibson, Joel F. & Cannings, Robert A., 2025, The Stiletto Flies (Diptera: Therevidae) of British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska, Zootaxa 5618 (4), pp. 481-508 : 499

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5618.4.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15218780

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F94187BB-0433-FF82-559E-FB13FD81146D

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scientific name

Thereva elizabethae Holston & Irwin
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Thereva elizabethae Holston & Irwin View in CoL

Specimens examined (9). BC: Vancouver Island, Brooks Peninsula, Cape Cook Lagoon ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 14–19 ). RBCM, SEM.

Database and literature records (15). BC: Vancouver Island, Brooks Peninsula, Cape Cook Lagoon. CNCI, MEI, SEM.

Conservation status. BC: S3S4

Distributional notes. Thereva elizabethae is known from only one location in British Columbia: the upper beach sand at Cape Cook Lagoon, Brooks Peninsula, on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 14–19 ). It probably occurs on other suitable beaches, at least on the south coast.

Ecoprovinces and other designations. BC: Coast and Mountains.

Range. Pacific Coast. Southwest British Columbia south to California along the Pacific Coast ( Webb et al. 2013).

Biological notes. Flight period: 2–13 August from a single site (1981). Thereva elizabethae lives on upper beaches and dunes along the Pacific coast ( Holston & Irwin 2005) ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 14–19 ). Suitable habitat is scattered but widespread on the British Columbia coast.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Therevidae

Genus

Thereva

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